there were thankfully no casualties and i think in the main that's because stepanek has obviously been under bombardment significantly over the last few weeks and has a you know a siege mentality so there is a well established and raid siren system and a network of shelters for people to run to when those sirens go off. but because the it had been quite some time since the panic or to being hit before like nearly a week ago people had starting relaxing abates and then coming out of the shelters and going about their daily business this of course will set things back in the city people will feel very nervous again and that's probably the intention from the is aries to make the people in savannah go feel on edge and d. moralize the problem is that this is a continuation of a of an ongoing tatts. system of reprisals i suppose in which civilians tend to be the targets the go in a car wreck authorities are so that they will retaliate for this that there will be no forgiveness and indeed the as aries said a few hours ago that there had been a small rocket attack on the city of 10 in which a

current total stands at $1119.00 since fighting erupted on september 27th the authorities there say that stepanek at the main city and shushi 2nd city also came under attack. from as a by johnny forces using. multi launch rocket systems and there have been a couple of injuries in attacks on on the cities there near my armenian defense ministry is also said that it shot down one of these turkish made by reactor drove the seeds of the the take this is a piece of technology that are being taken here huge and devastating toll on the nagorno-karabakh an armenian fight is now the diplomatic movement of the day is the foreign ministry foreign ministers of both as a by john and armenia are meeting in geneva with the co-chairs of the o.s.c. the minsk group now that is the platform by which negotiations are going to go to go karabakh have been undertaken for many years now but. clearly the president of as a by john has no faith left in that platform he said as much in recent days and this fighting is evidence that he has run out of patience with the o.s.c. the mint's group counter-terrorism police in india

to on this side it also is strategic military lease on a clifftop it's only 10 kilometers away from stepanek carried over. there we call it and so it would be a huge military sit back said back if they really lose everything or the push back from shushi now if you look also on the political side there is international move to try to bring the 2 sides together to try to reach some sort of ceasefire that could last to try to have negotiations this those efforts are spearheaded by russia and turkey now if armenia loses shoes she does have very weak position if they indeed meet did negotiating table. has more now from azerbaijan's capital. people have been coming out in the streets even today at the flag day a national holiday here another by john ryding their flags honking their horns on the streets it is a very different mood in azerbaijan they feel that their president has announced the retaking of the city of fuchsia and they believe this is what has happened we've been hearing from various sources that the city of fuchsia was predominantly occupied by fighters from the armenian side as many

between armenia and azerbaijan in decades there was more shelling in the nagorno cut a boxed main city stepanek yet a local rights group says half the population there has been displaced because of constant attacks from azerbaijan that have been similar accusations from the as area side they accuse armenia of targeting population centers civilian deaths have been reported in several regions where hundreds of homes have been destroyed by artillery international mediators a stepping up efforts to halt the conflict with french russian and u.s. representatives meeting in geneva turkey's foreign minister has condemned international efforts that have failed to resolve the dispute he says armenia was emboldened because no one challenge their occupation of azeri territory. we have to change the status quo it cannot go it cannot continue like this the territory is of azerbaijan including not in the car under the occupation of autumn in the air for almost 3 decades since 1922 we have minced group we have mean score chairs russia united states and france has there been any solution or any credible efforts

azerbaijan ganja the 2nd city of the country and there are continuing reports of missile strikes on stepanek and other population centers in the going to corridor now if azerbaijan were to reciprocate and there were to be missile strikes on targets in armenia that would activate russia's security guarantees to armenia and would force it to act and what's i think very dangerous here is that russia and i mean you're of course members of the collective security treaty organization and turkey is a member of nato so we see a risk of these 2 geopolitical blocs coming into conflict with one another in a very dangerous situation there have been speculation that russia might take advantage of the situation to impose a variant of the minsk group a peace plan on armenia if i mean is weakened over the course of a week to 10 days russia could come in and impose that there's speculation that perhaps russia wants to. enforce peace by having boots on the ground introducing peacekeeping forces into the combat zone but i think what's what's significant is that with this escalation today there is actually i th

stepanek the capital of the embattled nagorno-karabakh enclave live a structure left by as i shant army rockets is visible everywhere the residents mostly ethnic armenians and now leaving the sellers where they sought shelter during the attacks. you know. good the silence frightens me. too much silence is for. after the silence of there is usually a new bombardment. now i don't know if they will strike again. or if it will be quiet for a long time. several 100 people have been killed on both sides in the heavy fighting since the end of september now russia has stepped in to mediate the conflict with the latest cease fire the result of tense negotiations in moscow. a cease fire will begin at noon on saturday for humanitarian purposes for the exchange of prisoners of war and of the detainees and the bodies of the dead for mediation in accordance with the criteria of the international committee of the red cross. it didn't take long for the leaders of both sides to accuse each other of violating the cease fire but many still hold great hopes for peace such as here in baba as that by shan wh

he and commissioning charge of an irishman stepanek in the issue this statement expressing deep concern about the ten piece band known to attack. he suggested to me it could negatively affect his keys and fifty joined the eu can access the group threatens the protection of european values and sentence north korea will receive official told to mind the atf japanese diplomats were worse than no income declined. then comes the abductions of japanese nationals as well as the north nuclear and missile programs. the two teams from the two countries the foreign ministry's a great reason to official in iraq after hitting only in shenzhen china on the sideline to financial records talks the national gulf until cooked to cancun and that two thousand trial. the scotsman says the discussions will be held over to thinking thinking thinking to achieve level officials of the foreign ministers. now he presented nineteen eighteen epidemic to channel the asian oceania thespian else. cami is likely to send some to call the template for normalizing relations with japan. she was a little more than usual. i

over was a brief pause in all still issues the latest ceasefire appears to have failed the city of stepanek out came under heavy shelling from as they are forces as well john accuses our media of killing at least 21 people and wounding dozens in a missile strike strike rather on the city of by the talent's has the latest from the armenian capital. well they're going to care about. the defense ministry there is updated its military death toll. by another $51.00 casualties on the battlefields now they seem to be losing roughly that amount of people every day at the moment so the current total stands at $1119.00 since fighting erupted on september 27th the authorities there say that stepanek at the main city and shushi 2nd city also came under attack from azerbaijani forces using. multi launch rocket systems and there have been a couple of injuries in attacks on the cities there the my armenian defense ministry is also said that it shot down one of these turkish made by reactor drones these are the the this is a piece of technology that are being taken here huge and devastating toll on the nag

the most intense the bombing of the city since the war in 1904 the town of sushi 10 kilometers from stepanek and was also bombed all day monday azerbaijan armed forces started a target internationally syrian objects and operation as a result of which we have over the person casualties and much more wanted i mean yes prime minister is asking all the young men who have recently been demobilized to come back to join the battle. is urging them to fight to the death and ensure victory in this war the 2 former soviet republics have long been in. inflict or resurrect john's breakaway when they are at the core minyan region of nagano karbala. are the latest fighting now into its 2nd week follows cross border attacks in july when an already fragile says fire was broken. then as our bridges defense ministry threatened our menu with attacks on the met some more nuclear power plant this region serves as a corridor for pipelines carrying oil from the caspian sea to international markets and a threat to stability heightens customers concerns about supply given the intense fighting going to nagano car a bo

the region's main cities stepanek yet it's forced many to take refuge in underground shelters a local rights group says half the population there has been displaced because of constant attacks from azerbaijan they have been similar accusations from the area side they accuse armenia of targeting population centers civilian deaths have been reported across several regions where hundreds of homes have been destroyed by artillery fire international mediators a stepping up efforts to stop the conflict with the french the russians and the u.s. representatives all meeting in geneva simcoe sort of joins us live from azerbaijan what's the latest from the situation on the ground. preterists use that as their bridge and has similar accusations for instance this morning we woke up with the news that as several tons of us are bridge on was hit by artilleries and rockets by the iranian forces i mean go down by district by city at the home of a 63 year old. who who was killed this morning when a rocket hits her garden as you can see out of the window the rocket hits her garden and the glass is all o

it allows both sides to exchange prisoners and recover bodies for and it's spread through ports from stepanek hurts. step and i curtis taken a battering these last 2 weeks as a by john has thrown the latest high tech israeli and turkish supplied weaponry at this town and the surrounding areas of nagorno-karabakh the ceasefire has allowed people to risk emerging from their shelters. a cease fire is good certainly good but the problem must be solved you can't have a cease fire and several years later war again a cease fire must solve the problem that is already independence. independence is very unlikely this is internationally recognized as azerbaijani territory but it's governed by ethnic armenians a previous ceasefire lasted more than 26 years but the status of nagorno karabakh went on resolved a ceasefire allows both sides to assess the capabilities of each other and for the armenians there must be a new appreciation of the technically advanced and destructive weaponry that the adversary hands. what has surprised armenians in karabakh is turkey's open support for azerbaijan if one of the re

we live in burnet smith al-jazeera stepanek kurt nagorno-karabakh let's bring in vladimir certainly cough in moscow he's a political scientist at the russian academy of sciences it's good to have you with us sir knowledge is 0 thank you very much indeed for joining us does russia have enough influence with both sides to be able to at least bring some sort of temporary cessation of the fighting. well actually judging from the call to go shay chanson which were a lot of oil level now was on the friday on top of the might i think that russia has actually won so influenced the. not to look to spy on but also getting to use all such them and don't recall i think that both sides need most of. all i mean there's a budge on should recognize and. i think that russia of any important role look like. a coach elements of their means could look what else can russia do in terms of this current temporary ceasefire in terms of the humanitarian crisis that it was those of the frame in which this was built because although it managed to get both sides at least to the same table what it has not been able to

azerbaijan ganja the 2nd city of the country and there are continuing reports of missile strikes on stepanek and other population centers in the car now if azerbaijan were to reciprocate and they were to be missile strikes on targets in armenia that would activate russia's security guarantees to armenia and would force it to act and what i think very dangerous here is that russia and i mean you're of course members of the collective security treaty organization and turkey is a member of nato so we see a risk of these 2 geopolitical blocks coming into conflict with one another in a very dangerous situation what kind of pressure do you think that russia could bring on the media for example to both sides armenia and azerbaijan given the fact that it has links with both to be able to deescalate the situation in a way that would essentially allow turkey to remove its involvement with and effectively save some face. well it's a wide open question i think what's very important here is that in contrast to syria and libya we aren't talking about russia and turkey supporting factions in a prolonged ci

ukraine another life claimed by a virus whose 2nd wave is now sweeping across europe here in the town of stepanek a hospital designed for 100 people now has 106 corona patients alone. we are catastrophic li short of doctors the pressure is incredible and the infectious department we have one doctor per $47.00 patients. around the continent the number of new infections is surging austria has announced its highest daily figures so far in poland 2 unprecedented numbers of people are testing positive for the virus prompting the government to say it will introduce a general mask rule for all people outdoors and perhaps impose a state of emergency elsewhere as here in belgium the spike in cases has forced ministers to say no more than 4 people will be allowed to meet together in public but in spain the rate of new infections has slowed in recent days and a partial lockdown for the capital has been thrown out by a madrid court which said it infringed people's fundamental freedoms whilst in germany a surge in cases is causing deep concern at the highest levels of the uk to illicit drugs and. the current

accusing each other of shelling residential areas as fighting continues in the going to cut of the areas stepanek at cities suffered heavy damage overnight hundreds of people have been killed since the fighting began last month 2 russian brokered cease fires have so far failed. libyans are spoken of a hope and caution after their country's warring sides agree to a permanent ceasefire the un brokered deal was signed in geneva on friday after months of negotiations between the internationally recognized government in tripoli and its rivals in the east military and armed groups must withdraw from the front lines and foreign fighters have to leave libya within 3 months now that train has been speaking to people in misrata a city that has dealt with severe hardship ever since world war khalifa haftar launched his push for tripoli in april last year for libya which has been engulfed in violence for nearly 10 years these past 14 months have only seen the worst of it . while the east of the country is under the control of warlord fully for hafter and the to replace house of representatives the west is co

accusing each other of targeting civilians and dozens of casualties being reported the main city in stepanek yet has come under sustained bombardment azerbaijan has reported several missile attacks on 2 of its cities in that region it says some of the infrastructure sites in miniature via. the conflict to spark global concern and international mediators are continuing their calls for an urgent cease fire here's our team on the ground who is in azerbaijan and we have bernard smith who's in the town of gori bernard let's come to you 1st what's going on in gorgeous there right now. well gore is in armenia so we're a couple of hours now away from karabakh most of the while the fighting is centered there and suppose we were insta panic on sunday where there was intentionally while we were there i'm told that there is intense shelling on stop panic continuing today and that's been for much of the day it's 2 o'clock local time and people there woke up to the air raid siren so sustained shelling continues of that main city which has a significant civilian population were to at the moment that there

is now into its 2nd week and fighting is increasingly targeting civilian areas the regional capital stepanek yet has come under sustained bombardment azerbaijan has reported several missile attacks on 2 of its cities in the region it says some. of its infrastructure sites in the city of men should be or were targeted nato secretary general has joined international calls for a ceasefire in stoltenberg also called on turkey which has been backing azerbaijan to use its influence to calm tensions we are deeply concerned about of the situation in on their own and. we are of course watching the situation very carefully because we are concerned when we see. gratian in the holes that it is more fighting more violence we have all seen the reports about the increases number over casualties also civilians civilian casualties and of course. any fighting night is also false as a risk to all kinds of critical infrastructure ok here's our team on the ground this bernard smith is in the town of gori in armenia and azerbaijan we have seen him sin i'm coming to you 1st what's your reading of those comments th

targeted there was a direct hit on the electricity transformers a couple of hours after we'd filmed nearby stepanek kurt is now without power. and on the very edge of nagorno-karabakh more electricity transformers were targeted on sunday afternoon we driven past 5 minutes earlier. this on players under pressure like never before as azerbaijan's military forces seem to be trying to completely cut it and its people off from. bernard smith al jazeera nagorno-karabakh let's get the perspective from azerbaijan. she says the warring sides are no closer to entering into negotiations. amid accusations of all those are bridge on and are many against each other for attacking their civilian settlements in a corner car about conflict seems to be transforming into a direct war between our mania and as our page on that within this week top azerbaijan officials including the president have threatened that if our mania attacks us our rage on from our many in territory those firing positions would be destroyed and today our mania officials said that they hit. again jay aboard again jet is the 2nd largest city of us

this year just as the russian family at it was being released around the world is directed to deal stepanek was under house arrest and then on trial for four charges charges his supporters according to crackdown on the r. . and a few months ago the ministry of culture was granted unprecedented control over the direction of russia's film fund even in the film festivals have become a target the tally monkeys are docked first was hit by a new licensing reform forcing both him and his festival to relocate to latvia. those issues do need the russian state subjugated all media outlets the press the main t.v. channels and even the single liberal cable channel dogged which now has a very limited audience. to cut this tendency and i started to cleanse the whole cultural landscape destroying everything that allowed the production of alternative content and naturally his attention fell on film festivals if you. think recently the government has cut off. try to use scandal and controversy as a tool on all levels in terms of domestic policy in terms of forming public opinion but also kind of internation